Bal Krishan Shivram

Reflections on consciousness, society and values may take the individual through myriad of theoretical considerations, ranging from purely speculative to the concrete and substantially observable. Such reflections are justified from purely phenomenological perspective and/or from empiricistic and quasi scientific standpoint.

This work is a fascinating and innovative study which provides a detailed analysis of milk kinship; historically a medium for establishing complex social and political networks. Based on the use of primary source material, the study notes that Islamic tradition is unique in the attention it devotes to the creation of milk kinship through wet nursing. A child nursed by a woman becomes not only a blood relation to the nursing woman, but also a milk sibling to others who shared her breast.